Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/27737 Post a follow up: http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/27737 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: theme system Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: killes@www.drop.org Reported by: killes@www.drop.org Updated by: Steven Status: patch theme('format_name') is a bit weird... why not have theme('name') ? Oh and this might be a good time to change it so that it uses drupal_substr() and drupal_strlen() to cut off the username. This would mean the visual string length before chopping is more consistent. Steven Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:43:18 +0000 : killes@www.drop.org Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/theme_format_name.patch (20.39 KB) I've always disliked that I cannot chose which user information is displayed to the outside world. I often prefer to show "Firstname Lastname" rather than a often cryptic username. I could of course change this display in the node and comment functions of my theme, but then it would be confusing if the same user essentially has another name in the user search or the admin interface. Therefore I propse to make format_name a themabel function. Patch attached. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:50:06 +0000 : moshe weitzman makes sense to me.